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Do you like what you have but dont like your room? Heres the solution: pull your rooms together so they look finished and professionally decorated by following these techniques to add the wow to your rooms! (Ive used them in hundreds of homes!).

1. Paint the walls and ceiling a rich, warm neutral color or one of the colors in your rooms fabrics. Your furnishings will immediately look more at home. I call it marrying your architecture to your furnishings.

2. Next, move your seating away from the walls and group it around a fireplace, a view window or any logical focal point.

3. Now, add a generous area rug to accent and unify your entire seating area.

4. Fill any empty looking corners with large plants and soft up-lights. Add a decorative, folding screen for a fuller look.

5. Place your lamps to evenly and softly light your seating area. Use additional lighting to accent your artwork, collections and accessories.

6. Create a focal point on the coffee table by elevating one of your favorite accessories on a stack of several books (sans covers). This will give your treasure more presence. Then add a low, full green plant or a blooming orchid and a couple of large, glowing candles. If you like a fuller look, use a decorative tray or runner underneath.

7. Lastly, be sure to decorate the top half of your room (from the furniture up), with tall plants, window treatments, artwork and that wall color. The room will feel considerably larger, more interesting and most importantly finished!

These few changes will make all the difference so you can start enjoying living in a beautiful home!

Mary L. Brown of One Day Design is an interior re-designer who specializes in quickly transforming rooms using the furniture, accessories, and artwork people already have to give them a professionally decorated look! She’s been featured on FOXTV, NBC and HGTV. Download Marys FREE Top 10 Decorating Mistakes (and How to Avoid or Fix Them!) and sign up for her FREE decorating eNewsletter at http://www/OneDayDesign.com

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Customer Reviews

Review date : 2008-07-15
I recently purchased two of these sets and absolutely love them. I personally have no problem with the "smell". It is not strong at all and goes away quickly. I have them lined up at the foot of my bed. The chocolate color is really pretty! I highly recommend these ottomans!

Review date : 2008-07-12
As with many reviews, I was pleased with this item. Unfortunately I am one of the unlucky ones that have the bad smell. After a week and a runny nose, I have put it outside to "air out". I think it might be the chemicals used in the tanning process.

Review date : 2008-07-06
After reading everyone’s review and preparing myself for the "awful" smell of this ottoman, I was pleasantly surprised to have no smell. I mean, I live in Hawaii so all the houses are opened up so the smell may not linger as long. I did put a dryer sheet in the ottoman for a few days just to rid any smell that might get in the blankets I stuffed in it. You can tell the product isn’t top quality leather but for this price I am excited to have gotten it. I also have a 18month old son who loves the "baby" ottoman. The smaller ottoman is very little, small enough for my son to carry around, but it still a great buy. I’ve already recommended this to a few friends!

Review date : 2008-07-01
I’d looked high and low for a decent 2 piece ottoman set for my computer/gaming room. I had actually seen this very same set at a few retail stores for nearly double the costs.

After testing it, trying it out, moving it about, and putting some fair weight on it I can say that it’s pretty damned high quality craftsmenship.

This little handy duo is going to work great for me. The smaller for my feet, the larger for storage and a side table. Great deal.

Review date : 2008-06-24
an excellent buy at the price. I’ve seen some ottomans of a similar style for more than twice the price and I can see why that is - the build quality is better in the higher priced units. But seriously, these ottomans are damn good value and look the part - I’ll take 80% of the quality for less than 50% of the price. Mine were delivered quickly, and didn’t have any funny smell.

“Less is more.” Mies Van der Rohe said it, and exemplified what he said with such architectural masterpieces as the Seagram Building in New York City.

By “less is more” he meant the avoidance of gratuitous ornamentation. He believed in strong, simple design, with no decorative encumbrances to detract from the structural purity. His guiding principle was restraint, the kind of restraint that is critical to success in all the arts, including the art of garden design.

Admirable though it may be as a concept, restraint is not always easy to achieve in practice. You must start, of course, with good structure, and add to this structure only those elements which are essential to its delineation.

Above all, you must resist the temptation to add decorative elements simply because you happen to like them. Cute little frou-frous that don’t reinforce the core motif serve only to whittle away a garden’s integrity.

To put it another way, if it doesn’t help, it hurts.

Creative restraint is beautifully evident in the gardens of such masters as Russell Page and Jacques Wirtz. But can be carried to almost ungardenlike extremes in some of the new minimalist gardens.

In practicing restraint, garden designers can take a cue from the acting profession. Good actors don’t overact-they leave something for the viewer’s imagination. “Spelling out” is not nearly as effective as triggering the image-making abilities of the viewers, inspiring them to develop their own creative insights.

Dame Sybil Thorndike said it best. After watching a performance by the young John Geilgud, she remarked: “If he had cried less, the audience would have cried more.”

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